Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative

by Seamus O'Malley

Guided by Ezra Pound's dictum --"Make it new"--a generation of writers set out to create fiction and poetry that was unlike anything that came before it. However, as Seamus O'Malley shows, historical narrative was a key site for modernist experimentation. Taking three of literary modernism's major figures--Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and Rebecca West--Making History New demonstrates how the movement's literature not only engaged with history but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199364230
• ISBN13: 9780199364237
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"